(1st panel) Teach-In on why Technology will not save the world. 45 Scholars, Authors & Activists over two days provide an analysis on why immediate change is required in our thinking, behavior, values and economies.
"We once Lived is contact with wild Nature, and in-close human community;connected, embedded. Handing the future to technology, innovation, industrialization, and expansionist growth, human connection is now largely with machines, manufactured projected imagery, and cyber systems, generated from far-away mega-powers. A new kind of alienation, from Nature and from self, has appeared. We are enveloped by manufactured imagery and tech processes: they immerse society and become part of each of us. Does "Nature" exist anymore? Are we happy now?"(Event program) http://ifg.org/v2/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ifg_program_FINAL-2.pdf
International Forum On Globalization - www.ifg.org The International Center For Technology Assessment - www.icta.org NY Open Center - http://www.opencenter.org/ The Schumacher Center For New Economics - www.centerforneweconomics.org
see Ifg.org/techno-utopia/ for complete list
Sunday, Oct. 26 1st panel 10am-12:30pm
Langdon Winner, Rensselar Polytech Institute: Power Fantasies at the End of Modernism (0:00-20:58) Film Excerpt(Bregtje Van der Haak): TechMan (21:07-28:21) Douglas Rushkoff, CUNY Queens: Present Shock: Everything is Now (28:28-50:09) Chet Bowers: Techno-Language vs. Nature (50:12-1:13:01)) Stephanie Mills: Everyday Life in the Modern World (1:13:01-1:29:07) Aiden Enns (Canada), Geez Magazine: Life Offline (1:29:09-1:51:43) Craig Holdrege, Nature Institute: Hyper-Real & Real/Humans in Cyber World (1:51:54-2:08:56)